{"id":4565,"date":"2016-02-03T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T18:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2016-02-05T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:39:30","slug":"the-resilience-of-tropical-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-resilience-of-tropical-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"The resilience of tropical forests<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4566\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Chazdon-LEP-plot-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4566\" class=\"wp-image-4566\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Chazdon-LEP-plot-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Chazdon-LEP-plot-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a 37-yr old second-growth forest at La Selva Biological station, in northeastern Costa Rica. (Image credit: Robin L. Chazdon).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tropical rainforests that regrow after deforestation take up carbon more quickly than established forests and recover most of their biomass within decades, according to research on forests in Central and South America. Until now the recovery rate of these forests was unknown, hindering reliable estimates of their ability to absorb and store atmospheric carbon.<\/p>\n<p>This information will help to identify forests that are less likely to be resilient, and therefore should be protected, and those which might grow back quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers studied 45 forests and found the ability of the forests to recover was largely determined by the availability of water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature16512.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 3<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lourens Poorter, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandra M. Dur\u00e1n, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dana\u00eb M. A. Rozendaal, Department of Biology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tropical rainforests that regrow after deforestation take up carbon more quickly than established forests and recover most of their biomass within decades, according to research on forests in Central and South America. Until now the recovery rate of these forests was unknown, hindering reliable estimates of their ability to absorb and store atmospheric carbon. 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